Meaning

  1. One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
  2. (derogatory, obsolete, slang) A coachman who drives badly.

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English gardener, either calqued or loaned from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French gardinier. See garden, and compare German Gärtner (“gardener”), which is equivalent to a derivative of the German cognate to English garden, Garten (“garden”), + -er. Displaced native Old English wyrtweard.

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